Improvement in bridle-bits



'M AseuLINE Fonctions, or NEWHARRISBURG, onto.v

Letters Patent No. 106,044,`dated Augdsvt 2, 1870.

.IMPROVEMENT` IN BRIDlE-BITS.

`The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same. g

To all whom. it Imay concern Be it known that I, MASCULINE FonEAenn, of

New Harrisburg, in the county of' Carroll and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bridle-Bitsgaud I do hereby declare the full lowing to be afull, clear, and exact description thereoi', referencebeing had to th'e annexed drawing making part'of this specification, in which-"- Figure 1 shows inyirnproved bit as in use, attache to a bridle; l

`Figure 2 is an enlarged side view;

`Figure 3 is atop view, with a portion in section; and L y Figure 4:` is an elevation oi' the inside of one of the rings, with a section through the point oi' the mouthbit or snaiile.

The natureuof my invention consists in so arranging a sliding. curved bar, or leverl that a refractory horse may becompletely mastered and brought to a` standstill, while a gentle one will be under no more restraint thanwith an ordinary snafle-bit.

'In.tl1e`drawing A A istthe snaliie of the bit, attached to rings B,

p by which the bit is suspended from `the head-stall of any bridle. p

O is Ia curved shears, (see in section, fig. 3,) raised on the outside of the bridlefrings B, and extending across from side to side of each of them, between the center and the periphery,v and bridged where 'they cross thelrings, as seen` at a, fig. 2, so as to constitute i a. channel or way for the curved level' D to slide in.

This lever or Shar is the are 4of a circle, as is also its channel-way in the shears C, and bears aring orloop,

l), at its upper end for the attachment of the curb-- chainA in the ordinarymanner, when it is. to be used.

At the lowerend of the `bar D is a pulley-sheave,

0 as shown in gs. 2 and 3.

The snale-rein or the check-rein, according as saddie or harness is used, is attached ,to the bridle-rings Bas in iig. 1.

To the head-stall, near where the throat-latch and the checkfstrap divide, and outside ofthe head-band, is attached a power-rein, d, (see iig. 1,) the lower end of which vis passed through the bar D, at the 'sheave c, and terminates. in a ring, by which the rein c for harness, or the curb-rein for a saddle, is attached to it. In the normal condition of this bit, aswhen itis in the month of a gentle and obedient horse, the leverD will be in the position shown in fig. 2, and the curb j p willwbe free from contact with the undergside of the Jaw.

The fulcrnm of the level' being inthc limbs of the snaiiie A, where they rest on the bars of the horses mouth, a pull upon the rein c,"suficient to stop the horse or turn him, will be no more severe than if it were attached to the bridle-ring B'. i

Ifthe horse be hard-mouthed or vicious, the pull upon the reine, required-to control him, will cause the lever D to slide down in its bearings c, so as to be in 'the position shown in iig. 1, and by dotted lines in fig.

2, when the curb j' will be lowered \a`nd brought into contact with the jaw, justA above the chin, andthe distance between the sheave of the lever D and its fulcrnm at A, being greatly increased, While the distance between the fulcrum and the loops b is as much lesscned, the rein e will completely control the horse and render him powerless for mischief. i v

This power of the lever D is greatly enhanced vby the action of'. the power-rein d, which renders through and around the sheave c, so as to lift the snaiiie A in the mouth, and cause .it to press upon the sharpest part of the bars ofthe moutl1,whe1'e .they vare the Witnesses:

J osuUA J. ROLLINs, GEORGE W. PERRY. 

